Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Huge logfiles
Message-ID: <1989Sep11.020510.15755@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5868@obdient.CHI.IL.US>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 02:05:10 GMT

In article <5868@obdient.CHI.IL.US> blair@obdient.CHI.IL.US (Doug Blair) writes:
>I bring this up only to call it to the attention of those designing
>new C and B news (Hey Eric, where are you????). The race condition
>could be avoided if rnews -U checks for file length or does NOT change
>the file name of the incoming batch if there's no space....

C News doesn't have this problem.  We don't process spooled incoming batches
at all when space is low.  When space is *really* low, we drop incoming
news rather than trying to store it -- a properly-configured C News should
never run a filesystem down to zero.
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